With the new verification system, the number of fake accounts on the platform multiplied. Separating fake accounts from real accounts has also become more difficult with the reform.
President Donald Trumpa basketball player LeBron Jamesex-Mayor of New York State Rudy Giuliani and the Nintendo company.
Those are just a few of the Twitter accounts that the social media platform took down on Thursday.
It’s not about the accounts of real people or companies, but “verified” fake accounts imitating real people and companies, the number of which increased significantly after the reform made by Twitter, says American CNN (you will switch to another service).
The change did not lead to the desired outcome
A billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced at the beginning of November that verified Twitter accounts would become paid.
In the past, public figures and companies have been able to get their Twitter accounts verified for free.
The blue symbol next to the username has told that the tweeter is proven to be who he claims to be. You have received the confirmation by filling out the application.
With the reform, practically anyone can buy the certificate.
The reform therefore makes it even more difficult to distinguish real Twitter accounts from fake accounts.
For example, a member of the US House of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated that now anyone can have a conversation with the media in his name.
Musk previously said he was aware that fake account holders could take advantage of the reform.
Musk promised that elves with fake accounts would be banned from Twitter. Musk also assured that gate bans would be extremely rare.
The American CNN reported today that several Twitter users reported that they had easily created verified impostor accounts by purchasing the blue symbol.
CNN has not been able to confirm the claims.
According to the media, Twitter has taken down at least one account with a blue symbol imitating the US president.
Twitter canceled its reform
On Thursday, Twitter temporarily launched a new feature that separated official entities and genuine public figures from other users.
The feature was supposed to fix a deficiency that arose when the former blue badge became a paid feature.
The feature appeared under the user account name as a gray entry from the official account. The feature disappeared just hours later. Musk confirmed that he had disabled it.
Source: AFP